Todd SurovellProfessor & Department HeadArchaeology

Dr. Surovell specializes in the archaeology of hunter-gatherers and the first peoples of the New World. He has done fieldwork in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona, Wisconsin, Denmark, and Israel. He is a proponent of human behavioral ecology, and has used this approach to explore questions of past human demography, subsistence, and technology. He commonly uses mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and geoarchaeological methods in his work.He teaches a variety of courses in archaeology but most regularly Geoarchaeology, Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists, and Old World Archaeology.

Prasciunas, Mary and T. A. Surovell 2015Reevaluating the Duration of Clovis: The Problem of Non-Representative Radiocarbon Dates Age estimates for the duration of the Clovis complex In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding, edited by Ashley M. Smallwood and Thomas a. Jennings. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas, pp. 21-35. (pdf)